socialmedian: Proof That Facebook is Censoring You

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Source: Louis Gray - FriendFeed

Mar 14, 2009

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On a hunch by Craig Thomler that Facebook censors references to the word Twitter, I decided to put my money where my fingers are and type some test updates.

You won’t believe this.

Take a look (in reverse chronological order):

Note how I inserted numbers into the 10 test posts.

When I refreshed the page and clicked to my personal wall of updates, take another look:

The proof is in the screen shots.

Facebook is censoring you. Not just for profanity, but also for the word “Twitter” and even the phrase “Facebook sucks.” If this is legal, it’s a damn shame because I don’t like to be censored when talking to my friends.

UPDATE: As you will see from various comments below, my demo can only be repeated if you rapid-fire so many messages in a given time period. However, as Adriel refers below, there were other people over the course of several hours who witnessed Facebook censoring the word “Twitter” in updates.

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Comments (2)

Danmccosh,

Mar 16, 2009

Censoring Twitter. Impossible

Digitaleagle,

Mar 18, 2009

This is not true. If there's anything to be learned from database maintenance and content quality, is spamming and rapid data updates are always an issue for any type of data-maintained app, even web 2.0 facebook. Rapid mash any other words 10 times during peak hours, and you'd have the exact same affect.